Awesome

👋 Managing remote environments? Check out Warpgate, my smart SSH/HTTP/MySQL bastion server, it works great with Tabby, you'll love it.

👋 Tabby-web is looking for sponsors. As I can't afford to host it myself any longer, I'm looking for a sponsor to cover the hosting costs. If you're interested, please get in touch!

Downloads:

• Latest release
• Repositories: Debian/Ubuntu-based, RPM-based
• Latest nightly build

Tabby (formerly Terminus) is a highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client for Windows 10, macOS and Linux

• Integrated SSH and Telnet client and connection manager
• Integrated serial terminal
• Theming and color schemes
• Fully configurable shortcuts and multi-chord shortcuts
• Split panes
• Remembers your tabs
• PowerShell (and PS Core), WSL, Git-Bash, Cygwin, MSYS2, Cmder and CMD support
• Direct file transfer from/to SSH sessions via Zmodem
• Full Unicode support including double-width characters
• Doesn't choke on fast-flowing outputs
• Proper shell experience on Windows including tab completion (via Clink)
• Integrated encrypted container for SSH secrets and configuration
• SSH, SFTP and Telnet client available as a web app (also self-hosted).

Contents <!-- omit in toc -->

• What Tabby is and isn't
• Terminal features
• SSH Client
• Serial Terminal
• Portable
• Plugins
• Themes
• Contributing

<a name="about"></a>

What Tabby is and isn't

• Tabby is an alternative to Windows' standard terminal (conhost), PowerShell ISE, PuTTY, macOS Terminal.app and iTerm

• Tabby is not a new shell or a MinGW or Cygwin replacement. Neither is it lightweight - if RAM usage is of importance, consider Conemu or Alacritty

<a name="terminal"></a>

Terminal features

• A V220 terminal + various extensions
• Multiple nested split panes
• Tabs on any side of the window
• Optional dockable window with a global spawn hotkey ("Quake console")
• Progress detection
• Notification on process completion
• Bracketed paste, multiline paste warnings
• Font ligatures
• Custom shell profiles
• Optional RMB paste and copy-on select (PuTTY style)

<a name="ssh"></a>

SSH Client

• SSH2 client with a connection manager
• X11 and port forwarding
• Automatic jump host management
• Agent forwarding (incl. Pageant and Windows native OpenSSH Agent)
• Login scripts

<a name="serial"></a>

Serial Terminal

• Saved connections
• Readline input support
• Optional hex byte-by-byte input and hexdump output
• Newline conversion
• Automatic reconnection

<a name="portable"></a>

Portable

Tabby will run as a portable app on Windows, if you create a data folder in the same location where Tabby.exe lives.

<a name="plugins"></a>

Plugins

Plugins and themes can be installed directly from the Settings view inside Tabby.

• docker - connect to Docker containers
• title-control - allows modifying the title of the terminal tabs by providing a prefix, suffix, and/or strings to be removed
• quick-cmds - quickly send commands to one or all terminal tabs
• save-output - record terminal output into a file
• sync-config - sync the config to Gist or Gitee
• clippy - an example plugin which annoys you all the time
• workspace-manager - allows creating custom workspace profiles based on the given config
• search-in-browser - opens default system browser with a text selected from the Tabby's tab
• sftp-tab - open sftp tab for ssh connection like SecureCRT
• background - change Tabby background image and more...
• highlight - Tabby terminal keyword highlight plugin
• web-auth-handler - In-app web authentication popups (Built primarily for warpgate in-browser auth)

<a name="themes"></a>

Themes

• hype - a Hyper inspired theme
• relaxed - the Relaxed theme for Tabby
• gruvbox
• windows10
• altair
• catppuccin - Soothing pastel theme for Tabby
• noctis - color themes inspired by Noctis VS Code theme

Sponsors <!-- omit in toc -->

packagecloud has provided free Debian/RPM repository hosting

keygen has provided free release & auto-update hosting

<a name="contributing"></a>

Contributing

Pull requests and plugins are welcome!

See HACKING.md and API docs for information of how the project is laid out, and a very brief plugin development tutorial.

<a name="contributors"></a>

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome!